Kevin’s Video Core Training: Hips And Glutes
Today we posted Kevin Szymanski’s 20th training video, this time using a balance ball and a weight to strengthen glutes and hips. This exercise is ONLY for people who DO NOT have back problems. For those who are able to do this exercise it will help with picking up items as well as general balance. [...]
Better Bedding’s Death Decried By Furniture Trade Magazine
“Better Bedding, the East Hartford, Conn.-based sleep shop chain recently sold to Sleepy’s, deserved a better fate than it received,” writes David Perry in his recent Furniture Today article about the former Connecticut company. “The sale to Sleepy’s took the founding Wholley family, a name synonymous with integrity and professionalism, out of the business the [...]
Death Doesn’t Stop Dish Network Bills
Submitted for your disapproval: WatchdogNation.com founder and Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist shares his nomination for worst customer service story of the year — both for the customer and for him. A man’s mother dies, and Dish Network puts him through a second slow death. The company, which the BBB says has 13,000 complaints in the past three years against it, refuses to discuss the matter.
Congressional Aides: Excellent Place For Consumers To Go For Help
Congressmen, for many people, have about the same credibility as journalists and used car salesman. But congressional aides are a much different story: at least they should be. They are a wonderful resource for consumers to turn to when they run into roadblocks or questions dealing with the federal bureaucracy and other issues. Every member [...]
Blumenthal Not The Only Politician Getting Flak For Falsely Claiming Vietnam Service
The Pulitizer-prize winning PolitiFact.com has outed another politician attempting to mislead some constituents into believing he served as a Marine IN VIETNAM, just like Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal. In its column today, PolitiFact hones in on the “tough-talking, cowboy-hat-wearing, rifle-toting Dale Peterson, who is running in the Republican primary to be Alabama’s agriculture commissioner.” [...]
Conn Smoker Wins $8 Million In Damages Against RJ Reynolds, More Suits Possible
In what is believed to be the first successful individual suit in Connecticut against a tobacco company, a federal jury in Bridgeport has awarded Barbara Izzarelli $8 million. According to a Ct Law Tribune article by Christian Nolan, Izzarelli developed larynx cancer in 1996 at the age of 36. ” The Norwich woman can no [...]
Acid Reducing Drugs May Lead To Fractures
The Department of Consumer Protection is alerting consumers to new information from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about certain prescription and over-the-counter acid-reducing medications. The FDA is revising its prescription and over-the-counter labels for a class of drugs called proton pump inhibitors. These drugs work by reducing the amount of acid in the [...]
Cheryl Moves On To Her Dream Job At Aetna
How to Find Your Dream Job
Have you lost your job? Are you considering a career change?
Losing your job or living with the fear of losing your job creates stress. So does going to work every day to pay the bills while feeling completely unsatisfied. When we perceive ourselves as being trapped in an unpleasant situation we become plagued with negative thoughts and feelings.
Negative thoughts and feelings decrease our vitality. This makes it even harder to find what we are looking for or attract it into our lives. In this article, I’d like to offer some tips for what you can do while you are looking for a job or considering a career change.
Courant Columnist Rick Green Twists Facts To Protect Blumenthal
I am simply posting Rick Green’s blog tonight and let the readers decide what is fact and what is fiction.
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Consumer blogger Gombossy is up off the mattress and trying to breath new life into the sagging Blumenthal-lied-about-Vietnam story. Gombo dialed up Chris Shays, who describes himself as a good friend of the attorney general, to see if the former Connecticut congressman could recover any new memories of Blumenthal blunders he witnessed, dreamed, imagined or heard about on Fox News.
Former Congressman Thought Blumenthal Fought In Vietnam After Listening To Numerous Speeches To Veteran Groups
Former Connecticut Congressman Chris Shays said tonight that he became convinced that Attorney General Richard Blumenthal was a “combat veteran” of the Vietnam war after listening to numerous speeches that Blumenthal and he gave to veteran organizations over the years.
In a telephone interview with me, Shays said Blumenthal never outright said he was in Vietnam but by frequently using the “we” word in discussing combat and service in Vietnam it was clear to him what Blumenthal was intimating.
“He was giving the impression that he was in the fight,” said Shays, who clearly was uncomfortable discussing this issue.
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